Nkpa People are Peace Loving, Allow Us to Experience Development – President General NCDU Bishop Ugoo Nwosu Tells Methodist Church

The Presiding Bishop of Unique Grace Ministries and President Nkpa Central Development Union NCDU Bishop Elect Ugoo Nwosu has decried the anti-development antics of the Methodist Church wherein the church acting through her agents have continued to stall the ongoing Unity Housing Estate championed by Nkpa Community in collaboration with Abia state estate development Agency – ABSEDA.

Speaking to newsmen recently, the cleric condemned in strong terms the use of land grabbers to describe Nkpa people who have are known to be peace loving and accommodating.

Recall that few days ago the Methodist Church had gone to town with the news of their intentions to build a University at the Leprosy Center Umuimenyi without the consent and approval of the original land donors who leased the land to Government, a lease that will expire in the less that 6 years time.

According to the President General, since the conception of the planned University, the Methodist Church began to covet and attempt to take all the lands near the Leprosy center including the site for the proposed Housing Estate, to the point where the Prelate of the church reportedly called Nkpa People ‘land grabbers’.

“They began by writing series of petitions to Government through the ministry of Lands and Survey, and in all the petitions, and all the Surveys conducted including that of the Surveyor General of the state, it has been established that the site for the Unity Estate is entirely different from the land leased to the Government for the Leprosy Center, which the Methodist now lays claim to.”

“We therefore call on the Methodist church to allow Ala Nkpa to experience development. It should be on record that Nkpa people are not against the siting of a University on our land, what we are against is the attempt to do so on our land without our consent going further to encroach into a land we are already using for a different developmental project.”

“We also urge all Nkpa sons and daughters who have already invested in the Unity estate and those who are interested to be rest assured that we are on the right track because the estate has the full backing of the government of the day, having met all requirements as stipulated by the extant laws.”

Also speaking, the NCDU Chairman Works and Project committee Deacon Chief Charles Madubuike stated that there was no time people donated any land to the Methodist Church, according to him, the said Leprosy Colony land which the church claims today was leased to government and that lease will expire in the next 6 years.

He further called on Ndi Nkpa to remain calm and continue to support the Government of Dr Alex Otti.